A revision of the Plateremaeidae (Acari: Oribatei)
The family Plateremaeidae is revised, and includes the following taxa: Plateremaeus Berlese, with the only species P. ornatissimus (Berlese), from Brazil; Allodamaeus Banks, with the species ewingi (Banks), from the USA, coralgablensis, sp. n. (type-locality: USA, Flórida, Coral Gables), and ornatos Balogh & Csiszár, from Argentina; Lophoremaeus, gen. n., with two species: mirabilis Csiszár, from Bulgaria, the type-species, and laminipes (Berlese), n. comb., from Italy; Paralopheremaeus, gen. n., with the species legendrei (Balogh), n. comb., from Madagascar; Calipteremaeus, gen. n., with the species yaginumai (Aoki), n. comb., from Japan; the following species are considered incertae sedis: Plateremaeus carinulatus (Berlese), from Brasil, P. complanatus (Berlese), from Chile, P. rotundatus Berlese, from Japan, and P. tunicatus ( Balogh, from Zaire.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia
1986
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| Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-81751986000200001 |
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